Clinically, many parents generally believe that all drugs must be able to cure or beneficial to health, but often ignore the toxic side effects of drugs, especially that “Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine is not toxic” and willing to often give children to take, for a variety of vitamins, calcium tablets, immunomodulatory drugs and other so-called “supplements The “tonic” is even more casual. At the same time, parents will be very happy to believe individual doctors, advocating the benefits of a year, three years, five years of comprehensive Chinese medicine conditioning and promoting expensive drugs.
However, as the saying goes, “medicine is poisonous”, drugs are a double-edged sword, especially in children who are in the growth and development stage, the risks and safety hazards of their medication are the most, and reactions such as liver and kidney function damage, hematuria and calcium toxicity are rarely seen clinically but should be highly alert. In addition, the growth and development of children, as well as the long-term adverse effects in adulthood is more difficult to attract the attention of parents.
Modern medicine believes that children’s blood-brain barrier is not well developed and is vulnerable to drug damage. At the same time, the liver detoxification function of children is insufficient, and the liver enzyme system is not mature, so the drugs cannot be metabolized adequately in the body and cause toxic side effects. In addition, the kidneys of children are not well developed, so the excretion of drugs is slow and the half-life is long, which makes them susceptible to poisoning.
In fact, we in Chinese medicine have long pointed out that the physiological characteristics of children are that the internal organs are delicate, the shape is not yet full of qi, vigorous and rapid development. The pathology is characterized by easy onset, rapid transmission, clean and clear qi, and easy recovery. In other words, the function of the internal organs of children is imperfect, but their self-repair ability is very strong; the multiple diseases in children are relatively simple, and the recovery of diseases is also relatively easy.
Therefore, we conclude that the principle of children’s medicine for treating diseases ~ the middle disease is stopped, and the principle of medicine for conditioning ~ should not be taken for a long time. In particular, a large number of cold products seriously harm the child’s tender yang energy. A lifetime of reliance on medicine should never start with the baby!!!